Well, we started soccer two weeks ago and so far they all are really enjoying it! The boys are on the same team and Dan coaches it. Their team name is the Heatwave. Isabella is on an older team called Sweethearts. She actually played last spring thru the Upward program in Hendersonville. She liked it okay then but she was on a co-ed team with mostly boys and they were really aggressive, so she basically just tried to stay away from the ball most of the season! This year it's an all girls team and she really loves it!
This was on our way to the fields. Bella was getting her uniform right before the game and the boys didn't get in until after their first game so they used pinnies.
Their first games came on the HOTTEST and most humid day of the summer....at 3 and at 4 in the afternoon....there are no words to describe how miserable it was! I kept being worried about them overheating so I just kept forcing them to drink and pouring water over their heads, but they not only still played, but they played GREAT! Will scored 3 goals, Carter scored 2 and Bella scored 1! And they all were missing other players on their teams, so all three kids had to play 3 quarters out of the 4!
Here's Bella and her friend Sarah who is also in her class at school!
She's definitely more aggressive this year and focused on the field! Which is a far cry from last spring when she was more likely to be dancing and singing "All the Single Ladies" than kicking the ball! :-)
Will has really suprised us, because Carter has always been fast and competitive and we were worried Will would be more like Bella was her 1st season, but he has been a rockstar!! He's loves playing and is really great at stopping the ball and is a lot faster than we thought! He's really aggressive, too!
Look at his red face! He was sooo hot! Carter has been awesome, too! He is really good at getting the ball down to their goal and has assisted Will on many of his goal kicks. It has been difficult for him to not be the one that is scoring the most goals b/c he is SOOO competitive, but it's a good lesson for him in teamwork. He is great at getting the ball away from the other team and gets it to the other end of the field FAST!!!
Then the boys had their 2nd game this past Thursday night and their uniforms got here right before they played, thank goodness! (When I say right before, I LITERALLY mean right before. UPS delivered them 15 before we left for the fields!) Aren't they cute! They were missing 3 players at this game so Will had to play 3 quarters again and Carter played the entire game!
Here's my two soccer stars coming in at the end of a quarter!
Here they are playing!
My sweet friend Jen and her little boys, Grady and Jett came to cheer us on! Thanks guys!
Before this week's game!
Then two days later the boys played their third game and Bella played her 2nd! By this time, they are really getting the hang of things and in Dan's words they "dominated"!!! He's a proud daddy! Will scored 7 goals, Carter scored 2 and Bella scored 1 again (which doesn't sound like a big deal compared to the boys, but b/c she is in an older division it's much harder...so it is GREAT!)! We got to have lunch with someone very special before our games, which is probably why they did so great! :-) Kiki (my sister Nikki) was in Texas with friends and drove an hour and a half to see us for a few hours! It was awesome to get to hug her neck! We'll get to spend more time with her in a couple weeks because she'll be coming back with my sister Natalie and my nephew Blake for a long weekend! We can't wait!
Thanks for coming, Kiki! (And thanks for french braiding Bella's hair for me before the game!) :-)
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